“The yellow/violet harmony can be summed up in a single wordexotic. For while red/green reminds us of trees and flowers, and orange/blue of earth and sky, the yellow/violet chord has little connection with everyday experience. Instead, we find it in rare butterflies, tropical birds, unearthly sunsets, costumes of the Far East, and the trappings of royalty.”

—Charles Le Clair, Color in Contemporary Painting, 1991.